You’re looking at a screen grab from the Ubuntu filesystem. Yeah, I can’t make heads or tails of it, either…

I’m trying to make good on a New Year’s resolution to have a go at Linux, and an ancient Dell laptop kindly donated by Kathleen Howell and fiance Terry Irwin kind of forced the issue.

The initial install went fine, but without internet access I was left to play Solitaire and the like until a refurbished WiFi PC card arrived from Future Shop. I got that up and running and I’m actually posting this via Linux, but beyond my web browser there is so much that I don’t understand. Stay tuned…